success for me doesn't include having a job so meaningless and soul crushing that i make myself feel better by making an extensive chart of where my fellow high schoolers ended up, but hey
but all of those things are best learned through trial and error (except maybe Taxes)
I don't agree at all. Let's just look at finding a girlfriend. I didn't date until I was out of university. That's a bit late in the game.
If somebody sat me down and said, "Women like men with jobs, stop wearing that grunge crap, scent is surprisingly important to women so start wearing a tasteful quantity of cologne, here are the signs that a woman is interested in you, etc" I'd be banging all kinds of chicks. Instead, I did it by trial and error and...well, it took ages to figure out.
There are classes that teach all those things
It's called Life Skills
It's for remedial kids too dumb to figure those things out on their own and who are probably getting menial labor jobs out of high school
I'm aware that there's some sort of classes like that in some high schools, but they have the stigma that you suggest. And they probably don't teach the sort of things I'm thinking of. I assume they teach ironing and...well, actually learning to iron wouldn't be a bad thing to learn. I just put a towel on the floor and run an iron across the front of the shirt. But there's probably a much better way to do it. Using starch, for example. I don't even know what starch does. Wish I learned about it in high school.
typing is a thing you just learn by doing it a bunch
but coincidentally many high schools already teach that
I know it's taught in high schools. It's not something you "just learn". I took loads of typing classes and it's the best thing I did in high school. It's actually comes in handy every day whether at work or posting on your finer message boards in one's leisure time.
those classes have stigma because if you are too dumb to figure out basic human interaction you should probably not be with the general population in school
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NK2WX3H A survey that is for my statistics class final project. Gotta get 200 responses, in 24 hours!? Class is structured horribly and the teacher is horrible as well. Anyways, this survey is only 1 question, so do please help me.
I took your little survey, and was appalled to find out that you are misleading your respondents for purposes of recruitment. That was TWO questions.
Please forward me the relevant contact information for your statistics teacher, young man.
I never understood the whole "When I graduate I have to move out of my home town" mentality. You know, because some of us grew up in major cities.
If I moved away when I graduated I would have to go to the boonies.
Or do I have to go to a different major metropolitan area? Is the one where I spent the most time inherently bad because of it's familiarity? Cause I gotta tell ya, things don't really change that much no matter where you are.
I've lived in Miami, Reno, Atlanta, Washington D.C, and crap load of little town's in-between. And this was all before I was 18. And for the most part, people are generally the exact same.
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seriously the idea that I have to run away from the town that has the house I grew up in and the graveyard that holds my family's bones or "common knowledge" will brand me a loser is offensive
my father and I cleared the land we built our house on with our bare hands over the course of my entire childhood. ten acres of scrub oak and sand felled, dragged and burned
I watched that house being raised up and knew that one day after my parents died my sister or I would move into that house and I know that it'll be in my family for as long as we can hold onto it
"Unsuccessful"? Go fuck yourself. The day I'd stalk people on the internet I haven't seen in a dozen years just to prove I "beat" them is the day I hang myself
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I'm done with my freshman year of college as of today.
seriously the idea that I have to run away from the town that has the house I grew up in and the graveyard that holds my family's bones or "common knowledge" will brand me a loser is offensive
my father and I cleared the land we built our house on with our bare hands over the course of my entire childhood. ten acres of scrub oak and sand felled, dragged and burned
I watched that house being raised up and knew that one day after my parents died my sister or I would move into that house and I know that it'll be in my family for as long as we can hold onto it
"Unsuccessful"? Go fuck yourself. The day I'd stalk people on the internet I haven't seen in a dozen years just to prove I "beat" them is the day I hang myself
Skull, I had the song from the How To Train Your Dragon OST that Monkeyfeet posted in the theme song thread playing as I was reading this post
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I don't agree at all. Let's just look at finding a girlfriend. I didn't date until I was out of university. That's a bit late in the game.
If somebody sat me down and said, "Women like men with jobs, stop wearing that grunge crap, scent is surprisingly important to women so start wearing a tasteful quantity of cologne, here are the signs that a woman is interested in you, etc" I'd be banging all kinds of chicks. Instead, I did it by trial and error and...well, it took ages to figure out.
But you're already in the UK. If you move to somewhere else in the UK, you'll be a horrible life-failure.
The UK is too small for a Briton to be successful there. It's simple geography.
i was kinda hoping you'd read that
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that place that's twenty minutes awat that we go to to drink and gamble before we turn twenty-one?
everyone younger than you has picked up typing by, you know, typing
and it is not high school's fault for not teaching you how to talk to women
if you have to blame somebody, maybe blame the father you apparently don't miss seeing
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Ironically, a father would be the most likely person to say something like "stop wearing that grunge crap."
I wonder how many teenagers listen to sage advice like that.
But I don't think I'll get a visa to have a jolly life elsewhere, not much supply for florists!
I guess I'll just have to fail in life, despite going to have a career doing something I love.
I took your little survey, and was appalled to find out that you are misleading your respondents for purposes of recruitment. That was TWO questions.
Please forward me the relevant contact information for your statistics teacher, young man.
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We have good bars. And many strip clubs.
well that's more than most people can say
If I moved away when I graduated I would have to go to the boonies.
Or do I have to go to a different major metropolitan area? Is the one where I spent the most time inherently bad because of it's familiarity? Cause I gotta tell ya, things don't really change that much no matter where you are.
I've lived in Miami, Reno, Atlanta, Washington D.C, and crap load of little town's in-between. And this was all before I was 18. And for the most part, people are generally the exact same.
Ugh, I can't even talk to you.
Get away. You might get your fail all over me.
Windsor's pretty fun in the downtown/uwindsor area
lots of bars in a small area and the casino is always open to hit up for some after hours food or gambling
From playing a fucking MUD.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
She doesn't really strike me as the kind of person that cares where she gets drunk, just that she is in fact drunk.
I suspect she may have a gambling problem.
actually, it means you automatically win!
right on
it was my only computer game
Looks like to succeed you're going to have to go to Mars.
If you only make it to the Moon, I'll know you're half-assing it.
The best was that DNA game.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
with the copy protection where you had to look up a random word in a book that came with the game
Sorry sir, I'll try not to fail everywhere! :P
Or you instantly win at life, Bow!
The place where I lived the longest was Macon GA, and I wouldn't be opposed to living there again some day
The place where my family currently lives is Rutherfordton NC, but fuck going back there, and even they're probably gonna move back to Macon soon
But I go to school in Columbia SC (well, not after Saturday I won't) and I really could see myself settling in here for a while
my father and I cleared the land we built our house on with our bare hands over the course of my entire childhood. ten acres of scrub oak and sand felled, dragged and burned
I watched that house being raised up and knew that one day after my parents died my sister or I would move into that house and I know that it'll be in my family for as long as we can hold onto it
"Unsuccessful"? Go fuck yourself. The day I'd stalk people on the internet I haven't seen in a dozen years just to prove I "beat" them is the day I hang myself
Feels weird, man.
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Skull, I had the song from the How To Train Your Dragon OST that Monkeyfeet posted in the theme song thread playing as I was reading this post
It was pretty inspiring
damnit
I like the idea that I automatically win a lot better.